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Nov 2026
AnnouncementUnverified 2 days ago

NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects

NASA announced a suite of awards and mission updates on Saturday to expand the agency’s Moon Base exploration, science, and infrastructure capabilities. The investments will advance commercial robotic deliveries, a nuclear-powered rover named PROMISE, launch and orbital transfer services, and surfac

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ProductUnverified 4 days ago

Korea to Launch 2.2 Trillion Won R&D Push Led by Fusion Energy

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) approved a 1.48 trillion won fusion energy R&D program running from 2027 to 2036. The initiative will advance fusion technologies and establish demonstration infrastructure to support commercialization. The post Ko

AnnouncementUnverified 4 days ago

Midwestern City Lights

City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the New York metropolitan region. The International Space Stat

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AnnouncementUnverified 5 days ago

NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control paylo

AnnouncementUnverified 7 days ago

Powering up for a pivotal moment

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

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AnnouncementUnverified 7 days ago

What’s Up: November 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Meteor Showers, a Spacecraft Milestone, and a Supermoon Catch Taurid and Leonid meteors, spot Mars near Jupiter, celebrate Voyager 1’s light-day milestone, and watch November’s supermoon. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A month of meteor showers … a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter … and a superm

AnnouncementUnverified 7 days ago

Podcast: The laser that could break the laws of physics

U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researcher Jonathan Zuegel discusses the future of high-powered laser research in the United States, the ambitious NSF Optical Parametric Amplifier Line (NSF OPAL) laser facility. NSF OPAL is designed to…

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Oct 2026
AnnouncementUnverified 9 days ago

India-based fusion power company takes key steps

Pranos Fusion aims to finalize designs for its larger PRANIK tokamak in 2027, building on its PRAGYA research machine. The company highlights high-temperature superconducting magnets and India's manufacturing capabilities as key to reducing costs and advancing domestic fusion development. The post I

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AnnouncementUnverified 10 days ago

Reducing the drive-deficit problem in fusion simulations

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility developed an improved simulation model, addressing discrepancies between predicted and measured energy transfer in inertial confinement fusion experiments. The approach improves the accuracy of ignition predictions and supports optimization of experiment

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AnnouncementUnverified 10 days ago

November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away

Twin Travelers In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planetary alignment of the four largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Using six gravity assists between them, this Grand Tour gave us up-close views o

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AnnouncementUnverified 11 days ago

Halloween Aboard the International Space Station

Although no ghouls, goblins, or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but

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AnnouncementUnverified 12 days ago

Artemis III SLS Core Stage Joins Boosters at Kennedy

NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is integrated alongside the twin solid rocket boosters on Oct. 28 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians lifted the 212-foot rocket stage from the facility’s High Bay 2 using a o

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DealUnverified 13 days ago

Japan and Germany Partner to Advance Fusion Energy Development

Japan and Germany are strengthening cooperation on fusion energy, with Kyoto Fusioneering partnering with Siemens Energy, Mitsui & Co., and Proxima Fusion to develop key technologies for fusion power generation. The collaborations aim to accelerate commercialization and support plans for a fusion po

AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Nakanishi: ‘We will support efforts toward the commercialization of fusion energy.’

Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yusuke Nakanishi reaffirmed government support for private-sector fusion commercialization during a meeting with FIA at the Prime Minister’s office, highlighting Japan’s goal of demonstrating fusion electricity generation in the 2030s. The post Deputy Chief Cab

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AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

NASA SEES Interns Tackle Real-World Challenges in Lunar Exploration

The NASA STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Internship Program at the University of Texas Center for Space Research places high school students on small, mission-focused research teams mentored by NASA, academic, and industry experts. During

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AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

RS-25 Engine Tests at NASA Stennis

Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21, 2026. The hot fire test lasted for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, with a

AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

A superconducting ‘brain’ chip races to keep up with fusion’s unruly plasma

On Monday, Brookhaven National Laboratory debuted a superconducting chip designed to help monitor fusion plasma in real time. The lab developed it with other U.S. Department of Energy facilities and the AI hardware start-up Great Sky. The post A superconducting ‘brain’ chip races to keep up with fus

AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface

From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS instrument will blend machine learning with an ultra-compact

AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

Podcast: Can America's most powerful laser unlock the universe?

U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researcher Louise Willingale discusses the most powerful laser in the United States, the NSF Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort Pulse Laser System, how it's being used to advance science, and how it will become…

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AnnouncementUnverified 2 weeks ago

NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers

As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development through technology demonstrations, astronaut transport, terrain mapping, scientific investigations, and resource prospecting. Data from these early missions will inform future mobi

AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

NASA Improves Shock, Vibration Analysis

Rockets vibrate, shake, and flex intensely as they climb into space, and spacecraft packed with delicate scientific instruments must survive those forces. Before any rocket leaves the ground, NASA engineers work to predict how those stresses will affect every part of a spacecraft. To do that, engine

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AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen

As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride. Mjoen, NASA’s operations manager for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, helped shape the systems and ground ope

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AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

West in fusion race with China says UK atomic energy body

UK Atomic Energy Authority CEO Dennis Whyte highlighted growing competition between China and Western nations to commercialize fusion energy, citing China's rapid development of fusion technology and supply chains. He emphasized advances in superconducting magnets, AI, and research as key to acceler

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AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

Rigorous Analysis Confirms NASA’s Artemis II Heat Shield Performance

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield confirmed initial data showing the heat shield performed as e

AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

East Midlands set to benefit from £2.5bn fusion energy programme

UK Fusion Energy reported progress on the STEP Fusion programme at West Burton, highlighting its role in strengthening UK manufacturing and supply chains. The programme worked with 371 UK suppliers in 2025/26, with 80% of spending retained domestically, as development advances on the UK's prototype

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ProductUnverified 3 weeks ago

NASA’s Space X CRS-35 Launch Jellyfish

Sunlight illuminates the exhaust plumes of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on Oct. 13, 2026. This visual phenomenon is known as a “jellyfish”; it happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing s

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AnnouncementUnverified 3 weeks ago

Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 Completes Environmental Testing at NASA JPL

Description A lunar lander from Voyager Technologies completed nearly three months of environmental testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late September 2026. The tests demonstrate that the spacecraft is prepared to face the harsh conditions of launch, its journey to

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ProductUnverified 4 weeks ago

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Mission to Launch Health Research

NASA experiments focused on human and plant health and drug-resistant organisms will travel to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, advancing research that benefits life on Earth a

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BreakthroughUnverified 4 weeks ago

NASA Demonstrates Next-Generation Heat Shield Technologies

NASA is testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the Moon and Mars in an unusual way: by taking out the trash. When Northrop Grumman 24th cargo resupply mission for NASA undocked from the International Space Station, it carried a fleet of 12 small, experimen

FundingUnverified 4 weeks ago

Germany invests €500 million in fusion

Germany is pressing ahead with the development of fusion power plants. This week, as part of Germany’s High-Tech Agenda, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) launched a new milestone-based fusion program to accelerate private-sector fusion commercialization. The program will provide

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AnnouncementUnverified 4 weeks ago

Crew-12 Returns to Earth

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California in this Oct. 8, 2026, photograph. Aboard were NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Ad

AnnouncementUnverified 4 weeks ago

Themis completes second fuelling rehearsal

ESA’s Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator successfully completed its second ‘wet dress rehearsal’ at Esrange Space Center in Sweden on 29 September, testing the vehicle and ground procedures under representative cryogenic conditions.

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AnnouncementUnverified 4 weeks ago

Artemis II Crew Moon Photo Annotations

A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun is marked with handwritten notes in this April 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member’s tablet. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (in blue) and Victor “Ike” Glover (in green) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Jeremy Hansen (in red) observed impac

FundingUnverified 4 weeks ago

Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034

Type One Energy raised $200 million in Series B funding to advance Project Infinity and its stellarator fusion technology. The funding will support development of the Infinity One prototype machine and the company’s path toward commercial deployment. The post Type One Energy raised $200M to build a

BreakthroughUnverified 4 weeks ago

How to record rocket emissions

A research aircraft chased a sub-orbital rocket launch in Sweden to see how space agencies can better monitor and understand emissions in our atmosphere.

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AnnouncementUnverified 4 weeks ago

Lunar Grounding Challenge

As an astronaut traverses the lunar South Pole, tribocharging from walking on the lunar surface and plasma charging from the ambient plasma generate electric charge on the spacesuit. This problem is severely compounded when entering lunar shadows and Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs). In these dar

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AnnouncementUnverified 5 weeks ago

Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is ending, with the crew scheduled to return in early October. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will head home from the International Space Station after supportin

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ProductUnverified 5 weeks ago

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches to International Space Station

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched at 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. “Crew-13 is another demonstration of America’s unmatched capability in

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Sep 2026
AnnouncementUnverified 5 weeks ago

Commonwealth Fusion inks deal for over 6,200 miles of high-tech tape critical to operating fusion power plants

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has signed a supply agreement with Tokyo-based Fujikura Ltd to buy 10,000km (6,213.7 miles) of high-temperature superconducting tape for use in its planned fusion power plant. The post Commonwealth Fusion inks deal for over 6,200 miles of high-tech tape critical to operat

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AnnouncementUnverified 5 weeks ago

Japan’s fusion energy startup to begin power-on tests at pilot machine in 2027

Helical Fusion expects to begin preliminary power-on tests at its ‌demonstration fusion machine in 2027, it said on Tuesday. The company is developing Helix HARUKA, its integrated pilot machine using the helical approach to fusion. The post Japan’s fusion energy startup to begin power-on tests at pi

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ProductUnverified 6 weeks ago

NASA Tests Dual Mode Propulsion CubeSat Ahead of Launch

Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA is working to change that paradigm. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently completed a rigorous series of environmenta

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AnnouncementUnverified 6 weeks ago

MIRROR robot reflects future of in-orbit assembly

Image: Like a climber, selecting and adjusting its grip on the next hold and slowly moving across a rockface, the robot seen here crawls across a dark laboratory clutching onto pieces of equipment to steadily build a structure underneath itself, piece by piece. Crawling through the growing frame wit

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AnnouncementUnverified 6 weeks ago

NASA to Study Human Health, Performance During Crew-13 Mission

During NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations, including a new collaborative effort to study how spaceflight affects blood flow and clotting. NASA also is testing crew members’ manual p

AnnouncementUnverified 6 weeks ago

New tests for rendezvous and docking interoperability

Currently, space missions are one-shot affairs: satellites are sent to orbit to do their mission until they run out of fuel. The European Space Agency is working on a more sustainable future where satellites and spacecraft can rendezvous, dock, refuel, repair, recalibrate and even be repurposed for

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ProductUnverified 7 weeks ago

MTG-I2 timelapse: from arrival at Europe’s Spaceport to launch

Video: 00:03:09 The Meteosat Third Generation -Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite was launched on an Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, this timelapse video shows the process of getting the satellite ready for liftoff up to its launch into space on 27 August 2026 at 22:11 CEST (17:11 local t

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AnnouncementUnverified 7 weeks ago

Europe’s first HTS factory planned

Proxima Fusion and the State of Lower Saxony signed an agreement to develop Europe’s first large-scale production facility for fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape. The project is expected to receive around €140 million through 2029, supporting Proxima’s technology while expandin

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AnnouncementUnverified 8 weeks ago

FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for liftoff on Vega-C

Two Earth observation satellites – ESA’s Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C launcher and are awaiting liftoff at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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ProductUnverified 2 months ago

Watch: FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch on Vega-C

The European Space Agency’s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together aboard a Vega-C rocket on 15 September at 03:21 CEST (14 September at 22:21 local time). Watch the VV30 launch live from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, with coverage starting at

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BreakthroughUnverified 2 months ago

Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe

Video: 00:04:00 German company Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit with their Spectrum launcher, lifting off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway at 21:12 BST/22:12 CEST on 5 September 2026.  Spectrum is a two-stage, 28 m tall launch vehicle and, with its ten engines, is targeting to launch pa

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ProductUnverified 2 months ago

Media briefing ahead of FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch

Video: 00:47:00 On 4 September 2026, media representatives joined an online briefing ahead of the launch of ESA’s FLEX and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites. The two satellites are scheduled to launch together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 15 September at 03:

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Aug 2026
AnnouncementUnverified 2 months ago

Phoenix 3: concept study for a reusable European spacecraft

Engineers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry partners have completed an intensive concept study for Phoenix 3, a reusable spacecraft designed to fly experiments in microgravity and return them safely to Earth.  

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AnnouncementUnverified 2 months ago

Study on Modernization of Specification Format and Procedures for 6G

3GPP creates specifications at the cutting edge of modern communications technology – but how “cutting-edge” are the technology and processes that 3GPP itself uses to create those specifications? In June 2025, a cross-3GPP Study Item was launched to review 3GPP’s specification formats and working me

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